Police search for missing autistic teen

Canton police are searching for a missing 17-year-old boy with autism.

Robert Wang CantonRep.com staff writer @rwangREP

City police are searching for a missing 17-year-old boy with autism and other developmental disabilities who family members say disappeared from his home Saturday afternoon.

The Ohio Attorney General's Office on behalf of Canton Police have issued an endangered missing child advisory for Demarrio Davontae Williams. The advisory said he was last seen in the 1600 block of Quimby Avenue SW around noon Saturday.

The advisory says Williams is 5-foot-6, 120 pounds, biracial, has black hair and brown eyes, has autism with sensory deprivation, is deaf in his left ear, partially deaf in his right ear and drag his right foot while he walks. He was wearing a "gray hooded sweatshirt, black and red tennis shoes and black eyeglasses."

People with information about his whereabouts are asked to call Canton Police at (330) 649-5800.

As of 10 p.m., Williams had not been found.

Detective William Guthrie, who has been assigned to the case, said Williams is not known to have a lot of friends he's known to spend time with and that he has a tendency to try to imitate the people he's with.